Chapter 10 Determinants and consequences of the mortality and health of infants and children

Handbook of Population and Family Economics

Volumn 1, Issue PART A, 1997, Pages 483-557

  Wolpin, Kenneth I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956781867     PISSN: 1574003X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-003X(97)80027-X     Document Type: Review

References (73)

1. Becker G.S. A theory of the allocation of time. Economic Journal 75 (1965) 493-517
2. Becker G.S., and Lewis H.G. On the interaction between the quality and quality of children. Journal of Political Economy 81 (1975) S279-S288
3. (part 2). Ben-Porath Y. Fertility response to child mortality: micro data from Israel. Journal of Political Economy 84 (1976) S163-S178
4. Bongaarts J. Does family planning reduce infant mortality rates?. Population and Development Review 13 (1987) 323-334
5. Bross D.S., and Shapiro S. Direct and indirect associations of five factors and infant mortality. American Journal of Epidemiology 115 (1982) 78-91
6. Buehler J.W., Kleinman J.C., Hogue C.J.R., Strauss L.T., and Smith J.C. Birth weight-specific infant mortality, United States, 1960 and 1980. Public Health Reports 102 (1987) 151-161
7. Butz W.P., Habicht J.P., and DaVanzo J. Environmental factors in the relationship between breastfeeding and infant mortality: the role of water and sanitation in Malaysia. American Journal of Epidemiology 119 (1984) 516-525
8. Corman H., and Grossman M. Determinants of neonatal mortality rates in the U.S.: a reduced form model. Journal of Health Economics 4 (1985) 213-236
9. Corman H., Joyce T.J., and Grossman M. Birth outcome production functions in the U.S. Journal of Human Resources 22 (1987) 339-360
10. Cramer J.C. Social factors and infant mortality: identifying high-risk groups and proximate causes. Demography 24 (1987) 299-322
11. DeSweemer C. The influence of child spacing on child survival. Population Studies 38 (1984) 47-52
12. Easterlin R. Fertility and development. Population Bulletin of ECWA 18 (1980) 1-40
13. Eberstein I.W., and Parker J.R. Racial differences in infant mortality by cause of death: the impact of birth weight and maternal age. Demography 21 (1984) 309-321
14. Eckstein Z., and Wolpin K.I. The specification and estimation of dynamic stochastic discrete choice models. Journal of Human Resources 24 (1989) 562-598
15. Flinn C., and Heckman J.J. New methods for analyzing structural models of labor force dynamics. Journal of Econometrics 18 (1982) 114-142
16. Fogel, R.W. (1996), Chapter 9 in this Handbook.
17. Geronimus A.T. The effects of race, residence and prenatal care on the relationship of maternal age to neonatal mortality. American Journal of Public Health 76 (1986) 1416-1421
18. Geronimus A.T. On teenage childbearing and neonatal mortality in the United States. Population and Development Review 13 (1987) 245-280
19. Geronimus A.T., and Korenman S. The socioeconomic consequences of teen childbearing reconsidered. Quarterly Journal of Economics 107 (1992) 1187-1214
20. Grossman M. On the concept of health capital and the demand for health. Journal of Political Economy 80 (1972) 223-255
21. Grossman M., and Joyce T.J. Unobservables, pregnancy resolutions, and birth weight production functions in New York City. Journal of Political Economy 98 (1990) 983-1007
22. Harris J.E. Prenatal medical care and infant mortality. In: Fuchs V.R. (Ed). Economic aspects of health (1982), University of Chicago Press, Cambridge, MA
23. Heckman J.J. Sample selection bias as a specification error. Econometrica 47 (1979) 153-161
24. Heckman J.J. Statistical models for discrete panel data. In: Manski C., and McFadden D. (Eds). Structural analysis of discrete data with econometric applications (1982), MIT Press, Chicago, IL
25. Heckman J.J., and Singer B. A method for minimizing the impact of distributional assumptions in econometric models for duration data. Econometrica 52 (1984) 271-320
26. Heckman J.J., and Willis R.J. Estimation of a stochastic model of reproduction: an econometric approach. In: Terleckyj N.E. (Ed). Household production and consumption (1976), Columbia University Press, Cambridge, MA
27. Hermalin A. Regression analysis in areal data. In: Chandresekaren C., and Hermalin A. (Eds). Measuring the effects of family planning on fertility (1972), ISSUP, Belgium Ordina Press, New York
28. Keane M., and Wolpin K.I. The solution and estimation of discrete choice dynamic programming models by simulation: Monte Carlo evidence. Review of Economics and Statistics (1994)
29. Kleinman J.C., et al. The effects of maternal smoking on fetal and infant mortality. American Journal of Epidemiology 127 (1988) 274-282
30. Knodel J. European populations in the past: family-level relations. In: Preston S.H. (Ed). The effects of infant and child mortality on fertility (1978), Academic Press, Liege
31. Knodel J., and Kintner H. The impact of breastfeeding patterns on the biometric analysis of infant mortality. Demography 14 (1977) 391-409
32. Mimeo. Lee L.-F., Rosenzweig M.R., and Pitt M.M. The effects of nutrition, sanitation, and water purity on child health in high mortality environments (1992), University of Pennsylvania, New York
33. Martin L.G., Trussell J., Salvail F.R., and Shah N. Covariates of child mortality in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Pakistan: an analysis based on hazard models. Population Studies 37 (1983) 417-432
34. Matthiesson P.C., and McCann J.C. The role of mortality in the European fertility transition: aggregate-level relations. In: Preston S.H. (Ed). The effects of infant and child mortality on fertility (1976), Academic Press, Philadelphia, PA
35. Mauskopf J., and Wallace T.D. Fertility and replacement: some alternative stochastic models and results. Demography 21 (1984) 519-531
36. McKeown T. The modern rise of population (1976), Academic Press, New York
37. Meyer M.B., and Comstock G.W. Maternal cigarette smoking and perinatal mortality. American Journal of Epidemiology 96 (1972) 1-10
38. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Mira P. Uncertain child mortality, learning, and life cycle fertility (1995), University of Minnesota, New York
39. Mimeo. Montgomery M. A dynamic model of contraceptive choice (1988), Princeton University, Minneapolis, MN
40. Mroz T.A., and Weir D. Structural change in life cycle fertility during the fertility transition: France before and after the revolution of 1789. Population Studies 44 (1989) 61-87
41. National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality. Troubling trends persist: shortchanging America's next generation (1992), National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality, Princeton, NJ
42. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Newman J. An economic analysis of the spacing of births (1981), Yale University, Washington, DC
43. O'Hara D.J. Microeconomic aspects of the demographic transition. Journal of Political Economy 83 (1975) 1203-1216
44. Olsen R.J. Estimating the effect of child mortality on the number of births. Demography 17 (1980) 429-443
45. Olsen R.J. Mortality rates, mortality events, and the number of births. American Economic Review 73 (1983) 29-32
46. Olsen R.J., and Wolpin K.I. The impact of exogenous child mortality on fertility: a waiting time regression with exogenous regression. Econometrica 51 (1983) 731-749
47. Palloni A., and Tienda M. The effects of breastfeeding and pace of childbearing on mortality at early ages. Demography 23 (1986) 31-52
48. Pebley A.R., and Strupp P.W. Reproductive patterns and child mortality in Guatemala. Demography 24 (1984) 43-60
49. Pitt M.M., Rosenszweig M.R., and Hassan M. Productivity, health, and inequality in the intrahousehold distribution of food in low-income countries. American Economic Review 80 (1990) 1139-1156
50. Preston S.H. Mortality patterns in national populations with special reference to recorded causes of death (1976), Academic Press, New Haven, CT
51. Preston S.H. Introduction. In: Preston S.H. (Ed). The effects of infant and child mortality on fertility (1978), Academic Press, New York
52. Preston S.H. Fatal years (1991), Princeton University Press, New York
53. Mimeo. Ridder G., and Tunali I. Analysis of related durations: a semi-parametric approach with an application to the study of child mortality in Malaysia (1990), University of Chicago, Princeton, NJ
54. Rosenzweig M.R. Birth spacing and sibling inequality: asymmetric information within the household. International Economic Review 27 (1986) 55-76
55. Rosenzweig M.R., and Schultz T.P. Market opportunities, genetic endowments, and intrafamily resource distribution. American Economic Review 72 (1982) 803-815
56. Rosenzweig M.R., and Schultz T.P. Consumer demand and household production: the relationship between fertility and child mortality. American Economic Review 73 (1983) 38-42
57. Rosenzweig M.R., and Schultz T.P. Estimating a household production function: heterogeneity, the demand for health inputs, and their effects on birth weight. Journal of Political Economy 91 (1983) 723-746
58. Rosenzweig M.R., and Wolpin K.I. Testing the quantity-quality model of fertility: results from a natural experiment using twins. Econometrica 48 (1980) 227-240
59. Rosenzweig M.R., and Wolpin K.I. Governmental interventions and household behavior in a developing country. Journal of Development Economics 10 (1982) 209-225
60. Rosenzweig M.R., and Wolpin K.I. Evaluating the effects of optimally distributed public programs: child health and family planning interventions. American Economic Review 76 (1986) 470-482
61. Rosenzweig M.R., and Wolpin K.I. Sisters, siblings and mothers: the effects of teen-age child-bearing on birth outcomes. Econometrica 63 (1995)
62. Mimeo. Rust J. Do people behave according to Bellman's principle of optimality? (1992), Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Chicago, IL
63. Sah R.K. The effects of child mortality changes on fertility choice and parental welfare. Journal of Political Economy 99 (1991) 582-606
64. Sappenfield W.M. Differences in neonatal and postneonatal mortality by race, birthweight, and gestational age. Public Health Reports 102 (1987) 182-192
65. Schofield R., Reher D., and Bideau A. The decline of mortality in Europe (1991), Oxford University Press, Stanford, CA
66. (Suppl.). Schultz T.P. Studying the impact of household economic and community variables on child mortality. Population and Development Review 10 (1984) 215-235
67. Schultz, T.P. (1996), Chapter 8 in this Handbook.
68. Shapiro S., McCormick M.C., Starfield B.H., Kischer J.P., and Bross D. Relevance of correlates of infant mortality: the challenge of low birth weight. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 136 (1980) 360-363
69. Vallin J., and Lery A. Estimating the increase in fertility consecutive to the death of a young child. In: Preston S.H. (Ed). The effect of infant and child mortality on fertility (1978), Academic Press, Oxford
70. Wilcox A.J., and Russell I.T. Birthweight and perinatal mortality: III. Towards a new method of analysis. International Journal of Epidemiology 15 (1986) 188-196
71. Williams A.D. Measuring the impact of child mortality on fertility: a methodological note. Demography 14 (1977) 581-590
72. Wolpin K.I. An estimable dynamic stochastic model of fertility and child mortality. Journal of Political Economy 92 (1984) 852-874
73. Wray J.D. Maternal nutrition, breastfeeding and infant survival. In: Mosley H. (Ed). Nutrition and human reproduction (1978), Plenum Press, New York